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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Lamentations 1:21

They have heard that I sigh, the former friends and allies being fully aware of her groaning; there is none to comfort me, for they all ignore her trouble. All mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that Thou hast done it, rejoicing over the Lord's punishment upon Zion. Thou wilt bring the day that Thou hast called, the day of wrath with whose coming the Lord had threatened for many years, and they shall be like unto me, for the Lord would visit her enemies as He had punished her.

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See also Lamentations 1:21 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Lamentations 1:21. _THEY HAVE HEARD THAT I SIGH_] My affliction is public enough; but no one comes to comfort me. _THEY ARE GLAD THAT THOU HAST DONE_ it] On the contrary, they exult in my miser...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEY HAVE HEARD ... - Or, “They heard that I sigh,” that I have “no comforter.” THOU WILT BRING THE DAY ... - literally, thou hast brought “the day thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto m...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 1 JERUSALEM'S GREAT DESOLATION AND THE SORROW OF HIS PEOPLE The chapter begins with an outburst of grief over Jerusalem's desolation. Once she was a populous city; now she is solitary. Once sh...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LAMENTATIONS 1. THE FIRST LAMENT. This is an alphabetical acrostic poem in twenty-two stanzas of three lines each, with five Heb. beats in each line. It has two equal parts: Lamentations 1:1 (Aleph to...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE DAY: i.e. the day of vengeance of Jeremiah 25:17....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introductory note. Zion, as at the end of the previous _v_., now speaks....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The second and third lines are metrically irregular, as failing to fulfil the conditions of the "limping rhythm" of the Ḳinah. (See Intr. p. 321 f.) Löhr accordingly transposes "They are glad … done i...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THERE IS NONE TO COMFORT ME— Grief is timorous and suspicious, fertile in inventing torments for itself, scarcely brooking the least neglect, but entirely impatient of the least mockery or contempt. T...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. The Appeal to God Lamentations 1:20-22 TRANSLATION (20) Behold, O LORD, for I am in distress, my inward parts are troubled, my heart is turned within me because I have grievously rebelled. In the...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shal...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ZION'S DESOLATION AND SORROW Though the five poems contained in the book have practically the same theme—the downfall of Jerusalem—yet each poem dwells on a different phase of the subject as intimated...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DAY] i.e. the day of vengeance on Zion, long before announced (Jeremiah 25:17)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ ABOUT LAMENTATIONS We call this book Lamentations because it is a collection of sad poems. The five poems are about *Jerusalem. God wanted h...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEY ARE GLAD THAT THOU HAST DONE IT... — Historically the words refer to the conduct of nations like the Edomites, as described in Psalms 137:7. THOU WILT BRING THE DAY THAT THOU HAST CALLED. — Bette...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שָׁמְע֞וּ כִּ֧י נֶאֱנָחָ֣ה אָ֗נִי אֵ֤ין מְנַחֵם֙...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    ZION'S APPEAL Lamentations 1:12 IN the latter part of the second elegy Jerusalem appears as the speaker, appealing for sympathy, first to stray, passing travellers, then to the larger circle of the s...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In the Septuagint, the Lamentations are prefixed with the words, "And it came to pass that after Israel had been carried away captive, and Jerusalem made desolate, Jeremiah sat weeping, and lamented t...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Done it. They conclude that I am cast off for ever. But when I shall be comforted, their turn will come; (Calmet) or rather they will feel the scourge soon after me. --- Consolation. Hebrew, "which t...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day. The yoke of my tra...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The verb שמעו, _shemou_, is put down twice, but at the beginning without a nominative case: hence the sentence is defective, until in the second clause the word איבי _aibi_, is expressed. Jeremiah evi...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    There is nothing more affecting than the sentiments produced in the heart by the conviction that the subject of affliction is beloved of God, that He loves that which He is obliged to smite, and is ob...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEY HAVE HEARD THAT I SIGH: [THERE IS] NONE TO COMFORT ME,.... That is, the nations, as the Targum; the neighbouring ones, those that were her confederates and allies; the same with her lovers, as be...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    They have heard that I sigh: [there is] none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done [it]: thou wilt bring the day [that] thou hast called, and they...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _They have heard that I sigh_ The nations contiguous to me, Egypt and others, that before pretended to be my friends and allies, have been no strangers to my bitter afflictions, which have forced sigh...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    CALLED: Or, proclaimed...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-22 Jerusalem, sitting dejected on the ground, calls on those that passed by, to consider whether her example did not concern them. Her outward sufferings were great, but her inward sufferings were...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The nations contiguous to me, Egypt, &c., those that before courted me, as pretended friends, have been no strangers to my bitter afflictions, that have brought forth sighs from me; but there is none...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Lamentations 1:21 heard H8085 (H8804) sigh H584 (H8737) comforts H5162 (H8764) enemies H341 (H8802) heard...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    RECOGNISING THE DEPTHS OF HER OWN SIN JERUSALEM CALLS ON YHWH TO DO THE SAME TO HER ENEMIES WHO ARE GLOATING OVER HER AS HE HAS DONE TO HER, FOR THEY ARE EQUALLY SINFUL. AND SHE CALLS ON HIM TO AVENGE...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JERUSALEM CALLS ON THE WORLD, AND THEN ON YHWH, TO BEHOLD HER CONDITION AND CRIES TO HIM FOR VENGEANCE (LAMENTATIONS 1:12). This passage can be divided up into two parts, the first in which Jerusalem...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jeremiah's first complaint of the calamities of Judah. Appeal to God for deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Whatever our troubles are which God is pleased to inflict upon...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    This chapter is composed in the acrostic character. Each verse begins with the Hebrew letters in alphabetical order; that is to say, the first begins with א _aleph,_ the second with ב _beth;_ and each...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I called for my lovers, but they deceived me._ DECEITFUL HELPERS 1. It is an increase of sorrow to be disappointed of their help by whom we looked to be delivered out of our troubles. 2. God often...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?_ ZION’S APPEAL 1. The whole passage evidently expresses a deep yearning for sympathy. Mere strangers, roving Bedouin, any people who may chance to be passi...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LAMENTATIONS 1:1 How Lonely Sits the City. Lamentations 1:1 begins with a description of Jerusalem’s destruction (vv....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 1:21 NO ONE TO COMFORT ME. See vv. Lamentations 1:9,...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 1:12. These verses form the second section of the poem. The city is represented as complaining of its harassed condition, 12–16, and then as acknowledging her persiste...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 1:1 A WAIL OF DISTRESS FOR JERUSALEM. LAMENTATIONS 1:1,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the book of Lamentations. The book of Lamentations in the Hebrew Bible does not appear in the same place that it appears in our Bibles. In the Hebrew Bible it appear...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Amos 1:1; Deuteronomy 32:41; Ezekiel 25:15; Ezekiel 25:3; Ezekiel

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    They — The neighbouring nations. Like me — But thou hast foretold their destruction also, and hast by me proclaimed it: and thou shalt in that day bring them into as sad a condition as I am in now....

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